How to format your references using the Acoustics Australia citation style

This is a short guide how to format citations and the bibliography in a manuscript for Acoustics Australia. For a complete guide how to prepare your manuscript refer to the journal's instructions to authors.

Using reference management software

Typically you don't format your citations and bibliography by hand. The easiest way is to use a reference manager:

Paperpile	The citation style is built in and you can choose it in Settings > Citation Style or Paperpile > Citation Style in Google Docs.
EndNote	Find the style here: output styles overview
Mendeley, Zotero, Papers, and others	The style is either built in or you can download a CSL file that is supported by most references management programs.
BibTeX	BibTeX syles are usually part of a LaTeX template. Check the instructions to authors if the publisher offers a LaTeX template for this journal.

Journal articles

Those examples are references to articles in scholarly journals and how they are supposed to appear in your bibliography.

Not all journals organize their published articles in volumes and issues, so these fields are optional. Some electronic journals do not provide a page range, but instead list an article identifier. In a case like this it's safe to use the article identifier instead of the page range.

A journal article with 1 author

Barnaby, W.: Do nations go to war over water? Nature. 458, 282–283 (2009)

A journal article with 2 authors

Daily, G.C., Walker, B.H.: Seeking the great transition. Nature. 403, 243–245 (2000)

A journal article with 3 authors

Mansouri, F.A., Buckley, M.J., Tanaka, K.: Mnemonic function of the dorsolateral prefrontal cortex in conflict-induced behavioral adjustment. Science. 318, 987–990 (2007)

A journal article with 4 or more authors

Nechaev, S., Fargo, D.C., dos Santos, G., Liu, L., Gao, Y., Adelman, K.: Global analysis of short RNAs reveals widespread promoter-proximal stalling and arrest of Pol II in Drosophila. Science. 327, 335–338 (2010)

Books and book chapters

Here are examples of references for authored and edited books as well as book chapters.

An authored book

Pérez Fontán, F., Mariño Espiñeira, P.: Modeling the Wireless Propagation Channel. John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, Chichester, UK (2008)

An edited book

Li, P., Silveira, L.M., Feldmann, P. eds: Simulation and Verification of Electronic and Biological Systems. Springer Netherlands, Dordrecht (2011)

A chapter in an edited book

Wang, R., Yan, Y., Tan, B.: Three-Dimensional Nonlinear Force-Free Field Reconstruction of Solar Active Region 11158 by Direct Boundary Integral Equation. In: Tomczyk, S., Zhang, J., and Bastian, T. (eds.) Coronal Magnetometry. pp. 45–67. Springer, New York, NY (2014)

Web sites

Sometimes references to web sites should appear directly in the text rather than in the bibliography. Refer to the Instructions to authors for Acoustics Australia.

Blog post

Andrew, E.: Why Poo Transplants Are Nothing To Be Sniffed At, https://www.iflscience.com/health-and-medicine/why-poo-transplants-are-nothing-be-sniffed/

Reports

This example shows the general structure used for government reports, technical reports, and scientific reports. If you can't locate the report number then it might be better to cite the report as a book. For reports it is usually not individual people that are credited as authors, but a governmental department or agency like "U. S. Food and Drug Administration" or "National Cancer Institute".

Government report

Government Accountability Office: National Airspace System: Status of FAA’s Standard Terminal Automation Replacement System. U.S. Government Printing Office, Washington, DC (2002)

Theses and dissertations

Theses including Ph.D. dissertations, Master's theses or Bachelor theses follow the basic format outlined below.

Doctoral dissertation

Waterman, M.A.: Housing for the homeless mentally ill population: A grant writing project, (2015)

News paper articles

Unlike scholarly journals, news papers do not usually have a volume and issue number. Instead, the full date and page number is required for a correct reference.

New York Times article

Feeney, K.: Their Daily Flatbread, (2009)

In-text citations

References should be cited in the text by sequential numbers in square brackets:

This sentence cites one reference [1].
This sentence cites two references [1, 2].
This sentence cites four references [1–4].

About the journal

Full journal title	Acoustics Australia
Abbreviation	Acoust. Aust.
ISSN (print)	0814-6039
ISSN (online)	1839-2571
Scope